1. 1. 1. COMBUSTION PROCESSES: fossil and alternative fuels; atomization; noise; fluidized bed plants; chemoluminescence; pollutant emission; CFD; gas turbines; internal combustion engines, alternative drives. Laboratory website HERE.
         Contact: Dr. Ákos Bereczky ()
      2. ENERGY: production; conversion; storage; heat engines; heat pumps; turbines; heat exchangers; recycling; development; fluidized bed conversion.
         Contact: Prof. Attila Imre ()
      3. SUSTAINABILITY: climate protection; environmental, economical and social issues; life cycle assessment; energy politics; environment protection; wastewater treatment; air pollution.
         Contact: Dr. Péter Bihari ()
      4. RENEWABLES: solar, wind and geothermal energies; CHP; waste heat; biomass.
         Contact: Dr. Martin János Mayer ()
      5. THERMODYNAMICS: nonequilibrium thermodynamics; continuum mechanics; heat conduction; thermo-mechanics of solids; thermal physical properties; supercritical and metastable state.
         Contact: Dr. Tamás Fülöp ()

The Department of Energy Engineering dates back to the Institutum Geometricum and to the subjects of power machines and energy plants taught by Ignác Horváth and later by Ottó Petzval. Miksa Bielek, followed by Emil Schimanek delivered lectures about heat engines for 30 years from 1904. Zoltan Komody managed the Department of Steam Engines and Refrigerators from 1946. László Heller established the Department of Energy Management in 1951 and András Lévai established the Department of Heat Engines in 1953. In 1978 they were united into the Institute of Thermal Energy and Systems Engineering, headed by Director Imre Szabó. The Department of Heat Engines was founded in 1960 and was directed by Dezső Brodszky until 1972. It was directed by Gábor Bassa until 1989 and later by Antal Penninger. The Department of Energy Engineering was established in 1992 directed by Gergely Büki and László Rádonyi from 1996. The Department of System and Control Engineering was established and directed by Imre Szabó and later by Albin Zsebik. The Department of Energy Engineering in its present form was established in 2002. It was directed by Antal Penninger until 2008 from whom this position is taken by Gyula Gróf until 2019. From 2019 to 2021, Péter Bihari and is now followed by Attila Imre.

1871: Beginning: Mechanical Engineering Department of the Royal Joseph University
First Dean: Miksa Bielek, Professor of Power Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.

1882: Reforms: curriculum changes, new departments, new subjects.
1st Department of Mechanical Engineering (Power Engineering and Mechanical Engineering): Miksa Bielek, Emil Schimanek (1901).
2nd Department of Mechanical Engineering (Machine Elements and Lifting Machines): Professor Donat Bánki (1899).
3rd Department of Mechanical Engineering (Hydraulics and Hydraulic Machines): Donat Bánki (1900: Head of Department).

1898: Course "Heat engines" appears in the curriculum, teached by Emil Schimanek for 30 years.
1946: New name of the 1st Department of Mechanical Engineering is Department of Steam Engines and Refrigerating Machines, headed by Zoltán Komondy.
1951: László Heller establishes the Department of Energy Management.
1953: András Lévai establishes the Department of Thermal Power Plants.
1957: After the dissolution of the Faculty of Military Engineering, part of the Department of Aero-engines and Aeronautical Operations is transferred to the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. New name: Department of Gas Turbines.
1960: The Department of Steam Engines and Refrigeration and the Department of Gas Turbines are merged.
New name: Department of Heat Engines. Head: Dezső Brodszky.
1978The departments of Heller and Lévai are merged: the Institute of Heat and Systems Engineering.
Director: Imre Szabó.
1972-1989: Head of the Heat Engines Department: Gábor Bassa, followed by Antal Penninger (1989-2002).         
1992: The Institute of Heat and Systems Engineering became the Department of Energy, headed by Gergely Büki and by László Rádonyi from 1996. In parallel, the Department of Systems and Control Technology, headed by Imre Szabó and then Albin Zsebik, was established.
2002-2008: Antal Penninger founds and heads the present Department of Energy Engineering.
2008-2019: Head of the Department is Gyula Gróf, then Péter Bihari (2019-2021), and from 2021 Attila Imre.

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